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Should you be buying Kinross Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinross Gold include Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Barrick Gold (ABX), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), TRX Gold (TNX), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Alamos Gold (AGI), Yamana Gold (YRI), West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFT.TO) (WFT), and B2Gold (BTO). These companies are all part of the "gold" industry.
Agnico Eagle Mines (TSE:AEM) and Kinross Gold (TSE:K) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
71.3% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of Kinross Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Agnico Eagle Mines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Kinross Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Agnico Eagle Mines has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinross Gold has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Agnico Eagle Mines pays an annual dividend of C$2.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Kinross Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Agnico Eagle Mines pays out 199.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kinross Gold pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Kinross Gold had 3 more articles in the media than Agnico Eagle Mines. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Kinross Gold and 14 mentions for Agnico Eagle Mines. Agnico Eagle Mines' average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat Kinross Gold's score of 0.12 indicating that Kinross Gold is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kinross Gold received 166 more outperform votes than Agnico Eagle Mines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.61% of users gave Kinross Gold an outperform vote while only 60.51% of users gave Agnico Eagle Mines an outperform vote.
Agnico Eagle Mines presently has a consensus price target of C$97.50, suggesting a potential upside of 3.87%. Kinross Gold has a consensus price target of C$11.88, suggesting a potential upside of 6.98%. Given Agnico Eagle Mines' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kinross Gold is more favorable than Agnico Eagle Mines.
Agnico Eagle Mines has higher revenue and earnings than Kinross Gold. Kinross Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agnico Eagle Mines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kinross Gold has a net margin of 9.86% compared to Kinross Gold's net margin of 6.79%. Agnico Eagle Mines' return on equity of 7.06% beat Kinross Gold's return on equity.
Summary
Kinross Gold beats Agnico Eagle Mines on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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